Sundance 2026 runs from January 22 – February 1 in both Park City & Salt Lake City.

They’re stories about love, friends, family, and everything in between. They also happen to celebrate queer and trans culture. Three Dollar Bill Cinema is hosting Seattle’s Queer & Trans Film Festival ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cinema is becoming the new norm, according to Denver Film Society programmer Matthew Campbell: Festivals such as Sundance now feature films about LGBT characters ...

We’re living in a time of brutal backlash against LGBTQ+ rights. Florida and numerous other states have passed laws censoring discussions of queer issues in schools; trans people are facing brutal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in comedy. In 1895, William Kennedy Dickson made the short The Dickson Experimental Sound Film. The “film” is ...

Cinema is a powerful tool for creative expression that, sadly, has long dehumanized marginalized voices. Consider D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation. Released in 1915, the film brought technical ...

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When it comes to queer representation in movies just having a token character isn't enough. In 2025 we may thankfully be past the queer characters always being the scary monsters purely because of ...

Todd Haynes considers his being one of the frontrunners in the 1990s revolutionary New Queer Cinema movement – spurred on due to the inaction and devastation of the AIDS crisis – to be one of the ...

NPR's movie critic and producers discuss how queerness is present across all genres of movies in ways seen and unseen. What makes queer cinema... queer? What does queer identity mean to you? In the ...

PHILADELPHIA — Thom Cardwell, 79, of Philadelphia, a screenwriter, film producer, queer icon, and local celebrity, died Jan. 2 in Germantown after a yearlong battle with health complications. A ...